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How Steph Curry helped his digital marketing startup pivot and land a cameo in HBO’s ‘Ballers’

It certainly helps to have Steph Curry on your side, either on the court or in the startup world. The 29-year-old sharpshooting NBA star — who is also a talented golfer and made his professional debut this week — is the co-founder of Slyce, a Bay Area-based startup founded in 2015 that we covered last year. Slyce originally launched as a platform that helped athletes and celebrities sort through social media noise and increase engagement with their most loyal fans. But Slyce co-founder Bryant Barr, a former college hoops teammate of Curry and long-time friend, told GeekWire that his 8-person company pivoted… Read More

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HBO throws a strike at baseball tradition with ‘Real Sports’ look at how umpires compare to computers

Take him out of the ballgame? That would seem to the logical conclusion when it comes to home plate umpires if the decision is based on accuracy in calling balls and strikes. But in a game built on tradition, there’s more at play than being 100 percent correct. In the latest look at how technology could potentially alter yet another sport, HBO gets in on the ongoing debate over whether it’s time for baseball’s lovably blind yet nostalgically perfect umpires to give way to computer pitch trackers. A new episode of “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel” airs Tuesday night, and former player… Read More

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